Rakehaven

Rakehaven is a one-finger portrait route puzzle set inside a collection of miniature stone gardens. Every garden begins at a brass seal. Press the small brass rake there, then drag it from stud to stud while three permanent furrows appear in the warm mineral sand. Marked stones must be touched in their authored order before the rake reaches the turquoise basin. An edge cannot be used twice, and ordinary studs or marked stones cannot be revisited, so every branch changes the route that remains available.

The first garden teaches the rules through play. The brass seal, rake, next stud, marked stone, and basin are identified with stable shapes, outlines, dotted routes, and directional motion instead of a long instruction page. A legal step carves the furrow immediately and plays a short sand sound. A repeated edge, a stone reached in the wrong order, a sealed gate, or an early basin attempt is rejected on the related object, giving the player a visible reason and a useful next action.

The initial release contains twelve handcrafted gardens. Early levels introduce route choices and ordered landmarks. From Garden Five onward, clasp puzzles allow one carefully defined return to the clasp after completing its ring, opening a separate exit. Later gardens add remote key stones and gated detours. Gardens Four, Eight, and Twelve use dedicated milestone rules rather than simply adding more nodes or increasing a timer. Each level has its own target, topology, mechanism combination, hazard, and planning pressure, progressing from a readable first trail to multi-stage key, ring, and basin routes.

Failure does not erase gardens that have already been restored. A blocked attempt keeps the visible furrow and reports the missing stone, open ring, or recent fork worth reconsidering. A completed garden saves the player’s actual route, attempt count, and invalid-touch count in the Garden Album. Replaying a garden can produce a cleaner route and fewer stray touches, so improvement is based on understandable play data instead of a random score multiplier. An optional rewarded hint may mark one next edge that still belongs to a completable route, but it never draws the path automatically, opens a gate, grants completion, or changes a best record. There is no required energy system, automatic solution, or skin shop standing between the player and a finished garden.

Recent changes:
Updated the SDK version